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Believe not the existence of an emotion nobler than the compassion!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right especially when one is right. — Friedrich Nietzsche
For truly, what computer has not asked whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous instructions?
— Stanislaw Lem
Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
— Epictetus
Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
— Virginia Woolf
The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
A thunderous boo is one thousand times stronger, nobler, and more powerful than a standing ovation. Admiration corrupts.
— Nelson Rodrigues
After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
To be selfish is to sacrifice the nobler for the meaner ends, and to be sordidly content.
— Hugh Reginald Haweis
An ambition to excel in petty things obstructs the progress to nobler aims.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
The angels may have wider spheres of action, may have nobler forms of duty; but right with them and with us is one and the same thing.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
A book? O, rare one,Be not, as is our fangled world, a garment
Nobler than that it covers. — William Shakespeare
We do wrong to seek peace in Nature; we should rather seek the nobler sort of war; and see all the trees as green banners.
— G.K. Chesterton
At Learning's fountain it is sweet to drink,But 'tis a nobler privilege to think. — John Godfrey Saxe
A people so individual in its genius, so tenacious in love or hate, so captivating in its nobler moods.
— F. E. Smith, 1st Earl Of Birkenhead
Sometimes God wills for one of his children to experience human wickedness so that he will emerge stronger and nobler than ever.
— Henri Charriere
Nor deem the irrevocable PastAs wholly wasted, wholly vain,
If, rising on its wrecks, at last
To something nobler we attain. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.
— Alexander Pope
There is no joy nobler than suffering for the sake of love for man.
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
Kindness nobler ever than revenge.
— William Shakespeare
Order and system are nobler things than power.
— John Ruskin
There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better; nobler; holier than it knows now.
— Henry Ward Beecher
After all, it seemed far nobler to give up one's life to the light than to the dark.
— Bella Forrest
And envy, envious of a time when the poet, the mystic, the scientist and the statesman were nobler than the merchant.
— Soroosh Shahrivar
I no longer desire happiness: life is nobler than that.
— George Bernard Shaw
All daring and courage, I said, All iron endurance of misfortune, make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.
— Tom Spanbauer
Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, And souls are ripened in our northern sky.
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the later and more slowly does it mature.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
I have a cause higher and nobler than my own, a cause to which all private interests and concerns must be subordinated.
— Leila Khaled
Men are more compassionate/(nobler)/magnanimous/generous than God; for men forgive their dead, but God does not.
— Mark Twain
We like to admit to only that which already glows, although it is nobler to support brightness before it glows, not afterwards.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Man, made after God's image, was a nobler creation than twinkling sparks in the sky, or than the larger and more useful lamp of the moon.
— David Brewster
Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
— Thomas Jefferson
What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Though with their high wrongs I am struck to th' quick,Yet with my nobler reason 'gainst my fury
Do I take part. — William Shakespeare
Love becomes greater and nobler in calamity.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Deeds not Words: I say so too! And yet I find it somehow true, A word may help a man in need, To nobler act and braver deed.
— Henry Van Dyke
One hour devoted to mourning and lamenting theStolen equality of the weak is nobler than a
Century filled with greed and usurpation. — Kahlil Gibran
What is nobler," she mused, turning over the photographs, "than to be a woman to whom every one turns, in sorrow or difficulty?
— Virginia Woolf
The soul of man createth its own destiny of power; and as the trial is intenser here, his being hath a nobler strength in heaven.
— Nathaniel Parker Willis
A man cannot wheedle nor overawe his Genius. It requires to be conciliated by nobler conduct than the world demands or can appreciate.
— Henry David Thoreau
A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
— George Orwell
Writing may be either the record of a deed or a deed. It is nobler when it is a deed.
— Henry David Thoreau
To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
— H.L. Mencken
Men are born for games. Nothing else. Every child knows that play is nobler than work. He
— Cormac McCarthy
What can be nobler than the idea it gives us of the Supreme Being?
— Joseph Addison
In love's field was never found A nobler weapon than a wound.
— Richard Crashaw
Love has had a lot of press-agenting from the oldest times; but there are higher, nobler things than love.
— P.G. Wodehouse
Nothing is greater than to break the chains from the bodies of men - nothing nobler than to destroy the phantom of the soul.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
Green eggs, or not green eggs? That is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to eat them in a box, with a fox -
— Christopher Moore
Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.
— Alexander Pope
Our character ... is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.
— George Santayana
America has never forgotten - and never will forget - the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path.
— Bernard Baruch
We are richer in material wealth than those villagers; but their spirit is a nobler spirit than ours. We
— Kahlil Gibran
Mary heard God's word and kept it, and so she is blessed. She kept God's truth in her mind, a nobler thing than carrying his body in her womb.
— Saint Augustine
The nobler the truth or sentiment, the less imports the question of authorship.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A shy failure is nobler than an immodest success.
— Khalil Gibran
The life of action is nobler than the life of thought.
— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Scientific criticism has no nobler task than to shatter false beliefs.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth.
— Ruth McKenney
Rapunzel. She was one hundred times nobler than he had been, and he loved her.
— Melanie Dickerson
Green sods are all their monument; and yet it tells A nobler history than pillared piles, Or the eternal pyramids.
— James Gates Percival
It is higher and nobler to be kind.
— Mark Twain
No public interest is anything other or nobler than a massed accumulation of private interests.
— Mark Twain
We are the sowers - our children are those who reap. We labor so that future generations will be better and nobler than we are.
— Maria Montessori
Patience is nobler motion than any deed.
— C. A. Bartol
Life is an opportunity afforded to each not to eat and drink, but to achieve something nobler and higher to merge in the Reality.
— Sathya Sai Baba
My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - from favor and grace of God.
— Gerrit Smith
Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side and his nobler instincts - and another woman to help him forget them.
— Helen Rowland
Better conquest never canst thou make than arm thy constant and thy nobler parts against giddy, loose suggestions.
— William Shakespeare
On this day, take time to remember those who have fallen. But on every day after, do more; put the freedoms they died for to greater and nobler uses.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Life has no pleasure higher or nobler than that of friendship.
— Samuel Johnson
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
— Oliver Goldsmith
